LOWE, ADOLPH

LOWE, ADOLPH (1893–1995), economist. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Lowe was a civil servant in Germany's ministries of labor and economic affairs and in the central statistical office (1919–26). From 1926 to 1931 he was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Kiel, where he became director of research at the Institute for World Economy. In 1931 he was appointed professor of economics at the University of Frankfurt. In 1933, with the advent of the Nazis, he went to England where, until 1940, he was a lecturer in economics and political science at the University of Manchester. He left England in 1940 because he was perceived as an enemy alien. He settled in New York City, where he began teaching at the New School for Social Research. From 1943 to 1951 he directed research at the Institute of World Affairs in New York City. General economic theory, economic development, and business fluctuations were his main professional interests. Lowe retired from teaching in 1963 but remained at the New School for Social Research in the capacity of lecturer. He returned to Germany in 1983, where he lived to the age of 102. His major publications include Economics and Sociology: A Plea for Cooperation in the Social Sciences (1935), The Price of Liberty (1937), The Classical Theory of Economic Growth (1954), Structural Analysis of Real Capital Formation (1955), On Economic Knowledge (1965), The Path of Economic Growth (1976), and Has Freedom a Future? (1988). (Joachim O. Ronall / Ruth Beloff (2nd ed.)